- Colmán Már
Colmán Már mac Diarmato (died 555/558) was a King of
Uisnech inMide . He was the son ofDiarmait mac Cerbaill (died 565), the high king of Ireland and also king of Uisnech. [Byrne, Table 3; Mac Niocaill, pg.80;Charles-Edwards, Appendix III ]The annals do not refer to him as king but he is mentioned in the king-lists of the "Book of Leinster". It is unknown when he acquired Uisnech; his father had acquired the high kingship in 544. [ The "Laud Synchronisms" give him a reign of four years in Uisnech.] He was killed in his chariot by Dub Sloit Ua Trena one of the
Cruithne in 555 or 558. ["Annals of Ulster" AU 555.2, 558.2; "Annals of Tigernach" AT 557.1, Mac Niocaill, pg.70-71]Colmán Már was ancestor of the
Clann Cholmáin which later dominated the southernUi Neill . His sons included two kings of Uisnech,Suibne mac Colmáin Már (died 600) andFergus mac Colmáin Már (died 618). Colmán Már was possibly identical withColmán Bec (died 587), the distinction arising out of 8th century politics. [Byrne, pg.xvii]Notes
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Kings of Uisnech References
* "Annals of Tigernach" at [http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]
* "Annals of Ulster" at * [http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]
* Byrne, Francis John (2001), Irish Kings and High-Kings, Dublin: Four Courts Press, ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9
* Charles-Edwards, T. M. (2000), "Early Christian Ireland", Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-36395-0
* Gearoid Mac Niocaill (1972), "Ireland before the Vikings", Dublin: Gill and Macmillan
* "Book of Leinster","Rig Uisnig" at [http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]
* "Laud Synchronisms" at [http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]External links
* [http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts] at [http://www.ucc.ie/ University College Cork]
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